• John Haynes (draughtsman)
• Brownlow Cecil, Earl of Exeter (client)
• George London (nurseryman)
• John Haynes (surveyor)
• Moses Cook (nurseryman)
• Lancelot Brown (landscape architect)
• George London (landscape architect)
• Moses Cook (landscape architect)

A survey plan of Burghley House and its grounds

1755

- DR1985:0414 presents a topographical survey of the country estate (Burghley House) of Lord Exeter -- including the main house, outbuildings, gardens, terraces, courts, canals, ponds, parterres, bosquets, rond-points, and tree-lined allées -- as it existed in 1755. Each feature of the grounds and park (along with its dimensions) is itemized in a legend entitled "Explanations".

• measured drawing
• record drawing
• topographic survey

Pen and black ink

sheet (with small tab u.c. 2.0 x 3.9 cm): 44.5 x 52.4 cm (17 1/2 x 20 5/8 in.)

DR1985:0414

• rendering

• plan (drawing)
• site plan

Old fold in centre, t. to b.; small tab u.c.

inscribed - by an eighteenth-century hand ? in pen and brown ink, u.l.: "No.8 [circled]" inscribed - by the draughtsman, in pen and black ink, u.l.: "An Accurate Survey / of the / House, Pleasure Ground & Park / at Burghley in / Northamptonshire the Seat of the / Right Hon.ble Brownlow Cecil / EARL of EXETER / Survey'd by J. Haynes / in 1755" inscribed - by the same hand as "No.8", in pen and brown ink, u.l. (below title): "before Mr. Browns works." inscribed - by the draughtsman, in pen and black ink: labelled throughout inscribed - by the draughtsman, in pen and black ink, l.r.: a legend, with dimensions, keyed alphabetically to the plan

• architecture de paysage
• topographique